Debuting this week on Disney + is the second season of the rebooted Daredevil series that once called Netflix home, Daredevil: Born Again. The backstory of which is now fairly well known, the eight episodes that make up season two were originally supposed to part of a larger 17 episode season with the rest of season, but that got cut in half to allow more post production time. This season does feel like a  continuation of the previous season for that reason.

We start this season with Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Charlie Cox) and Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) now fully in a committed relationship and also in hiding. Wilson Fisk/Kingpin’s (Vincent D’Onofrio) reign of terror as Mayor of New York continues as he has formed the AVTF. The AVTF or Anti Vigilante Task Form, a black body armor, above the law group of personal stormtroopers that have descended on the city under Fisk’s personal banner. Fisk is also preparing for the trial of Jack Duquesne/The Swordsman (Tony Dalton), the first to be charged under his new anti-vigilante laws. Due to Murdock being in hiding, Duquesne’s defense falls solely under the purview of his struggling partner Kirsten McDuffie (Nikki M. James) as the firm Murdoch/McDuffie is swamped with cases after the way the law runs the streets.

Surprisingly, Poindexter/Bullseye (Wilson Bethel) is on a redemption tour. After the manipulations of Kingpin, and more specifically his wife Vanessa (Ayelet Zurer), Bullseye is out for revenge on the power couple, but also doesn’t mind helping out Daredevil out of the blue in the first episode. And Murdoch’s scorned ex Dr. Glenn (Margarita Levieva) has gone full broken psyche in the aftermath of season one’s attack by Muse. Glenn now openly forges documentation and diagnosis to benefit the Fisks, fully embracing a darker side of her personality. Meanwhile, BB Urich’s (Genneya Walton) double dipping is progressing even further as she continues to use Daniel Blake (Michael Gandolfini) for information and publishing via underground video streams while continuing to produce Fisk branded puff pieces by day.

The second season of Daredevil: Born Again starts off with two of perhaps the best episodes of the entire season directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead. The way that Benson and Moorehead move the camera and display the manner in which Murdoch uses his enhanced senses outshines the work of the other directors in that prospect. While set pieces and fight scenes are still expertly staged and visualized, it’s the nuance that sets Benson and Moorehead apart. As for those fight sequences, there’s a lot more of the same quality work that the first season had on display here.

Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Charlie Cox) on the set of Marvel Television’s DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN, exclusively on Disney+. Photo by Jojo Whilden. © 2025 MARVEL.

That said, because of the nature of the shoot, a lot of the previous season’s issues do bleed into this season as well. Fans who were not happy with the whole Heather Glenn character and how it was handled, and there were quite a few online, won’t be happy to see the overacting that continues to plague Levieva’s performance. Her role in the overall story has been markedly downgraded this season. Gandolfini’s Daniel remains wildly uneven throughout the season, though he does manage to claw some of it back by the end.

But the leads here are still firing on all cylinders as Cox, D’Onofrio, Woll, Zurer and Walton are all excellent. Add in a delightfully unhinged Bethel as Bullseye and a welcome return of Krystin Ritter’s Jessica Jones and you have a great cast doing solid work. I’ll also add a little kudos to Camila Rodriguez as Angela Del Toro, as we see her start to assume the White Tiger mantle from her late uncle.

Fans looking for Jessica Jones to pop up right away will have to exercise some patience, as this remains Daredevil’s story and the focus remains squarely on Murdock and Fisk, but they will be happy once the show rings that bell . But fans of the first series of Born Again, and the original Netflix series should be well satiated by what they see on screen. The wait for the second season of Daredevil: Born Again has been well worth it. And the way the season ends should leave audiences clamoring to see what comes next with Season 3.